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27 y/o trans dude, he/him swedish ♥ Wishlist ♥

[kingvoracious]

If any of you have ever wanted prints of my 2015-16 trauma typography paintings… I finally got good documentation!  They’re available for sale on Society6!  Please support the baby foundations of my self-driven creative business!  I love you all! 

More of my work will come available in the coming weeks and months, so if you don’t see anything of interest yet… keep watching.  (:

[kingvoracious]

Hi please purchase some art from me thank u it would really boost my creative self-esteem and help me move my creative productions forward thanks. ✌️💚✨

[old-friends-fan-page]

[prokopetz]

If you’re trying to catch a housecat that’s gotten outside, don’t forget: they’re an ambush predator and you’re a persistence predator. You have several times more endurance than they do - use that to your advantage! Don’t run after them; that’s playing to the cat’s strengths, and vigorous pursuit may cause them to hide. Instead, follow them at a brisk walking pace until they get tired and need to have a lie-down, at which point you can simply pick them up and take them home.

[fsthhdwefg-deactivated20180515]

Ok but no shit this tactic is what allowed humans to survive pre-civilisation

[cannibalfilmphd-deactivated2023]

> ancient humans, walking after a mamoth at a moderate pace.

🎵bad boys bad boys, watcha gonna do?🎵

[unicornempire]

MenacingMallWalking for Survival

[overthinkinglotr]

LOTR’s concept artists designed the films as a “journey back in time”

So (according to the concept art book) as the Fellowship travels deeper into Middle Earth, the places they pass through become inspired by progressively older periods of history. The farther along you are in the story, the more ancient the design influences

We begin in The Shire: which feels so familiar because, with its tea-kettles and cozy fireplaces, it’s inspired by the relatively recent era of rural England in the 1800s

But when we leave Hobbiton, we also leave that familiar 1800s-England aesthetic behind and start going farther back in time. 

Bree is based on late 1600s English architecture

Rohan is even farther back, based on old  anglo-saxon era architecture (400s-700s? ce)

Gondor is way back, and no longer the familiar English or Anglo-Saxon: its design comes from classical Greek and Roman architecture

And far far FAR back is Mordor. It’s a land of tents and huts: prehistoric, primitive, primeval. Cavemen times

And the heart of Mordor is a barren lifeless hellscape of volcanic rock…like a relic from the ages when the world was still being formed,  and life didn’t yet exist

And then they finally reach Mount Doom, which one artist described as 

“where the ring was made, which represents, in a sense, the moment of creation itself”

[hobbithorse19]

@luckynumber1213 this is awesome to know!

[pagerunner]

@cimikat HOW DID NEITHER OF US KNOW THIS.

[dwlostcompanion]

OH SHIT SON!!!!!!

[spinfl1p-deactivated20180812]

a long time ago in an alternative canon-divergent universe far, fa

[bapouro]

[hotvampireadjacent]

[heringstuff]

Opinion | I’m a female chef. Here’s how my restaurant dealt with harassment from customers.

In the years since implementation, such harassment has ceased to be a problem.

The catalyst was a customer — ­ a father of four who had put his hand up the shirt of a busser clearing his family’s table. The busser was so stunned she didn’t report it, but the event sparked a flood of reactions from staff members who’d had similar experiences. At our meeting, women shared stories about harassment from customers and said that when they tried to report it to male managers, they were often ignored because the incidents seemed unthreatening through a male lens.

We decided on a color-coded system in which different types of customer behavior are categorized as yellow, orange or red. Yellow refers to a creepy vibe or unsavory look. Orange means comments with sexual undertones, such as certain compliments on a worker’s appearance. Red signals overtly sexual comments or touching, or repeated incidents in the orange category after being told the comments were unwelcome.

When a staff member has a harassment problem, they report the color — “I have an orange at table five” — and the manager is required to take a specific action. If red is reported, the customer is ejected from the restaurant. Orange means the manager takes over the table. With a yellow, the manager must take over the table if the staff member chooses. In all cases, the manager’s response is automatic, no questions asked. (At the time of our meeting, all our shift managers were men, though their supervisors were women; something else we’ve achieved since then is diversifying each layer of management.)

In the years since implementation, customer harassment has ceased to be a problem. Reds are nearly nonexistent, as most sketchy customers seem to be derailed at yellow or orange. We found that most customers test the waters before escalating and that women have a canny sixth sense for unwanted attention. When reds do occur, our employees are empowered to act decisively.

The color system is elegant because it prevents women from having to relive damaging stories and relieves managers of having to make difficult judgment calls about situations that might not seem threatening based on their own experiences. The system acknowledges the differences in the ways men and women experience the world, while creating a safe workplace.

[girlsmoonsandstars]

Brilliant. 

[shrewreadings]

And to support her brilliance, I’ll be buying her cookbook,  Mac and Cheese. 

(Goodreads link here: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16169870-the-mac-cheese-cookbook)

[kingvoracious]

If any of you have ever wanted prints of my 2015-16 trauma typography paintings… I finally got good documentation!  They’re available for sale on Society6!  Please support the baby foundations of my self-driven creative business!  I love you all! 

More of my work will come available in the coming weeks and months, so if you don’t see anything of interest yet… keep watching.  (:

[blameaspartame-deactivated20200]

biology

[umameva]

the mother called her babies just for me ;;;

[frislander-deactivated20220305]

@mysticismmess @hymnsofheresy this is us right here, isn’t it?

[syntheticorange]

@connivingophelia

[palestinianliberator]

The argument that Israelis have every right to subjugate and cleanse Palestinians from the land because it’s their “ancestral homeland” is bullshit for a plethora of reasons, but ignoring most of them, there’s one simple, proven fact that is almost never brought up - 

Israeli-led DNA studies have shown that the indigenous Palestinian population are descendants of the Jewish population that lived in the region in ancient times. Sure, Palestinians aren’t Jewish religiously, but given this claim to indigeneity that many Zionists argue, why are Palestinians excluded? Why are we labeled as “foreign invaders”?

Why is this claim to an “ancestral homeland” used to justify our ethnic cleansing in al-Nakba and the expansion of Israeli settlements built on stolen and cleansed Palestinian land?

Why is our ancestral claim to the land completely ignored, while others are given these BS “birthright” trips to a land that many Palestinians are denied entry to?

Is this because Israel is built on the idea of Jewish religious supremacy? If Palestinians share the same ancestral roots as those claiming Palestine/Israel to be their ancestral homeland and use that as a justification for their return, why is their “return” based on the removal of Palestinians?

Does this ancestry in any way limit or delegitimize the anti-semitism that does exist among those who are no longer religiously Jewish? Absolutely not, but again, that isn’t the point here.

The point is that the argument to Israel being an “ancestral homeland” and that Palestinians are “Arab invaders from Saudi Arabia” or “Jordan” or w/e other BS arguments we hear from Zionists are just that…BS.

It’s an argument used as nothing more than propaganda. I mean, Ben Gurion himself, first Prime Minister of Israel, stated that “f we investigate the origins of the Felahim [Palestinians], there is no doubt that much Jewish blood runs in their veins.”

So why then have future Prime Ministers and Israeli politicians, along with Zionists in general, buried this truth? Why is “ancient ancestry” used as a justification for the removal of Palestinians in order to make room for Israeli settlers and settlements? Palestinians are simply the Jews who remained, and converted, whether to Islam or Christianity [the village I am from is named after a Christian monastery]. Why are there no “Palestinian Jews”, then? Because they were absorbed into Israel and became Israeli, and intermixed with the influx of foreign migrants that came to be the first population of modern Israel.

One can argue that “there was no Palestine in ancient times!! Only the Kingdom of Israel!!!!” and yeah, you’d be right, but that in no way whatsoever delegitimizes the modern Palestinian struggle and narrative. We were a part of these various Kingdoms. We remained. We were converted, we were absorbed into numerous various empires, and we’ve remained throughout history. We’ve developed our own identity, our own culture, our own way of life, and we remained in the land that over time came to be known as Palestine. And no, those Zionist claim “the name Palestine was never used for the region!!” are BS, as it has been used for millennia to refer to the general geographical region, and become a formal entity in the early 40′s. 

Palestine is our ancestral homeland, and we will continue to fight for it.

[bintilleil-deactivated20200510]

Mark Zuckerberg is a despicable misogynist and a capitalist pig who sells all of our private information, and is responsible for selling that to the people who used it to ensure the election of a crypto-fascist president, but this site reaaaally needs to stop with the “secretly inhuman / alien / lizard person” jokes because he is jewish and that shit comes DIRECTLY from literal antisemitic conspiracies started and propogated by genuine neo-nazis so why is it so hard to just not do that?

[kaylapocalypse-deactivated20201]

Before you recoil from this and develop defensive emotions, I used to joke about him having to go to human classes (a real thing he did) but then when i was watching the Live Congress thing he’s doing yesterday, youtube had the comment feed on and i got to watch people literally in real time at like 8 mph use that rhetoric while spamming stars of david next to it and i recoiled back from that joke/line of mockery so fuckin fast my guys.

Consider yourself informed and move forward from it. We can think up new things to mock him with that aren’t being glorified by neonazis.

[but-is-it-gay-tho]

[disasterpigeon]

Ok so today I was on the bus with another trans guy and we were talking about how hard it is to get testosterone. The waiting lists, the price, all the doctors you have to go to, that kind of stuff. Except, we were calling it ’T’, like you do when you’re both closeted and in public.

Then suddenly the elderly lady sitting behind us was like ‘young men, either I’m going crazy or you both have never heard of supermarkets, they have shelves full of tea there! Do you need directions to one?’

To which my buddy starts to explain, because why not. ‘Well you see, we’re both trans, and… ’

The lady didn’t wait for him to finish his sentence. ‘Oh no, I don’t mind that at all! Now do you want to know how to get to a place that sells tea? I’m actually heading there right now!’

We let her take us to the supermarket. We let her show us, excitedly, where the tea was. We both bought loads.

[70slesbian]

Pride (2014) dir. Matthew Warchus

“When you’re in a battle against an enemy so much bigger, so much stronger than you, well, to find out you had a friend you never knew existed, well, that’s the best feeling in the world.”

[moonkitty]